This week the DFPP team grabs their go-karts and rides off to camp to catch the yearly relay competition where they learn that the size of your waist matters much less than the size of your heart in the 1995 comedy Heavyweights.
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Chủ Nhật, 31 tháng 8, 2014
Chủ Nhật, 24 tháng 8, 2014
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 190 - Guardians of the Galaxy
Ooga-Chaka! This week the DFPP team are Knowhere special where they learn that the local flora and fauna are one in the same and that often the bravest of heroes can come with a bushy tail in the 2014 action adventure Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Show notes:
- IMDb
- Wikipedia (Wikia)
- Official Site
- Trailer
- Soundtrack
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team)
- Knowhere
- Guardians of the Galaxy (1969 team)
- Sakaarans (Planet Hulk) (Badoon) (Necrocraft)
- Infinity Stones (Power Stone) (Infinity Gems)
- Milano (named after Alyssa Milano)
- Yondu (Yaka Arrow)
- Jackson Pollock
- Thanos
- Ronan
- Korath
- Nebula
- Taneleer Tivan (Collector)
- Ultron
- Beta Ray Bill
- Howard the Duck
- Cosmo
- Bereet
- Nova (Richard Rider)
- Corvus Glaive (Black Order)
- The Giving Tree
- Ranger Rick
- Groot Dancing
- Peter's dad is not J'Son
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Thứ Sáu, 22 tháng 8, 2014
O-Town MacDown Competition This Saturday
Saturday, August 23
11am - 4pm
Orange County Convention Center
Hall D2 West Concourse
Online Ticket Sales End Friday at 5pm
($10 Adult, $5 Kids)
Tickets Available at the Door
($15 Adults, $10 Kids)
*There is a discounted community parking fee of $9.00 if you choose to park at the Convention Center.
Come see the O-Town MacDown, a delicious “food fight” cooking competition featuring professional chefs and restaurants as well as home cooks and non-profit organizations who will duke it out to the very end to be named Orlando’s Mac-n-Cheese Champion.
Prizes will be awarded in various categories, and the event will include live entertainment, celebrity chef cooking demonstrations, live performances, a kids’ fun zone including face painting, bounce houses and macaroni art station, theme park character meet-and-greets and vendor booths.
Presenting sponsor SeaWorld along with Give Kids The World invite the general public to come sample the cheesiest mac-n-cheese that area culinary combatants have to offer at this cooking challenge.
Attendance and participation benefits Give Kids The World Village, a 70-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
For more information visit the website.
Chủ Nhật, 17 tháng 8, 2014
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 189 - Planes: Fire & Rescue
This week the DFPP team heads off to their favorite corn festival only to learn that the kernels have popped when a fire strikes and they have to help learn how to put out the flames or wash out in the 2014 animated adventure Planes: Fire & Rescue.
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Thứ Sáu, 15 tháng 8, 2014
Disneynature Bears Blu-ray Review
Disneynature’s 2014 release of Bears was well received by nature documentary fans. The story of Sky and her two cubs as she guides them through their first year of life is beautifully filmed with the same attention to detail that we’ve come to expect from Disneynature films. The film is narrated by Rhomann Dey… errr I mean John C. Reilly, and directed by seasoned nature documentarians Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. If you missed this film in the theater, or just want to see the gorgeous landscapes of Alaska, you can now take this movie home on Blu-ray.
The bonus features of the Blu-ray start off with “Welcome to Alaska”, which takes us to Katmai National Park where the film was shot. It is one of the only places in the world where you can go to see Bears living in a natural habitat. We learn about how the small production crew (common for nature documentaries) went about choosing and setting up their basecamp. We also learn about some of the ways they tracked Sky and her cubs as well as get to see a close encounters with a wolf (presumably Tikaani). At the end they had to pack up and leave as winter set in - the movie similarly ends with Winter.
“The Future for Bears” is discussion about how the bears and other animals shown in Disneynature films are protected. One of the things we learn is that Disneynature films try to demonstrate how the animals they show are smarter than generally portrayed than their counterparts in stories and legends. The main goal is to interact with the bears as friends, not enemies. We learn that while the bears are protected their primary food source, salmon, is not. As this is mostly a message about conversation we get to see Jane Goodall visiting the sets to see her first bears up close ever.
In “A Guide to Living with Bears” the main focus is to remind is that while bears are protected they are still wildlife and as such they are still dangerous creatures and omnivores - they eat deer same as berries. The crew was primarily ground based and as such they had to rely on the use of professional bear trackers and guides. The bears in the movie have never been hunted because of their protection, but they are still dangerous animals / predators. We learn about Bear Flares and how they are used in the most dangerous of situations to ward off bears without harm. Even with more than 1700 bears in the region, the crew spent 2 years filming, and had no aggressive approaches.
If you’ve seen the film and are wondering “How did they film that?”, now you can find out. Starting with a discussion about aerial filming of Sky’s den emergence with the cub. The rigors of landscape filming outdoors. About how they had to make a second base camp in the mountains to be able to track and search for the bears. In addition to hiking we also see how they both skied and snowboarded down to the mountains investigate the bear dens. You can also learn about how they set up for underwater filming using divers.
The final bonus feature is the music video of “Carry On” by Olivia Holt which is the theme song for the film. There is also a preview of the next Disneynature film Monkey Kingdom due out on Earth Day 2015. Overall this is a well put together Blu-ray, each of the bonus features is solid and interesting. My usual complaint of “not enough” rings true here as one of the pieces tells us that the crew filmed more than 400 hours of footage. And knowing this, and presenting only a 78 minute movie and 30 minutes of features makes you want to know what wasn’t shown. Nature documentary films will want to add this to their collections of course, seeing the Alaskan wilderness alone is worth the price.
Chủ Nhật, 10 tháng 8, 2014
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 188 - Once Upon a Mattress
This week the DFPP team is sent on a quest to find the perfect pea in order to help a mother solve a problem for her son when they realize that this tale can only end with the the swimming of a moat in the 2005 musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress.
Chủ Nhật, 3 tháng 8, 2014
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 187 - The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
This week the DFPP team assists a fellow man of science with his experiments when they learn that the mysteries of man are best kept locked inside their heads or else things just end up in peach pits 1964 comedy The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.
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Thứ Sáu, 1 tháng 8, 2014
Gluten Free & Dairy Free at WDW 5th Anniversary Giveaway
We at the Disney Film Project would like to congratulate Sarah of the Gluten Free & Dairy Free at WDW blog on her 5th Anniversary. In doing so we at the Disney Film Project are a sponsor for the Gluten Free & Dairy Free at WDW 5th Anniversary Giveaway. Please join the celebration, and enter the contest for your chance to win one of 3 prize packages that includes: 2 $50 Disney Gift Cards and a Special Diets Gift Pack.
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